Neil Armstrong’s initial step on the celestial body overhead is an essential and significant triumph that in fact skill had manufactured in the twentieth century. The mission accomplished the objective set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, which was to land a man on the moon then return to Earth.
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Approximately five minutes before Armstrong took his first historic step, he and Aldrin undertook some housekeeping familiar to all Americans.
Click through the slideshow above to see some hidden gems from the Apollo 11 collection.
As the video above recalls, the two men, who along with command module pilot Michael Collins made up the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, landed in the Sea of Tranquillity in their Eagle lunar module at 2.56am BST. Their exploration was beamed to millions of people all over the Earth, who heard the voice of Armstrong declaring the famous words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. The Apollo program was responsible for landing 6 missions on the moon and providing 400 kilograms of lunar samples. They also left a plaque that read “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon – July 1969 A.D”. “We came in peace for all mankind”, according to NASA. 9They returned to Earth on the 24 day of July taking a splash on the Pacific Ocean.
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Next Monday, 46 years later, the world will again celebrate and remember that brilliant moment in humankind history. Armstrong dropped the jett bag to the surface, and later kicked it under the lunar module to get it out of the way.
